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A Woman (2010)
Character: Vincenzo
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
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Fuori dalle corde (2007)
Character: Michele 'Mike' Lo Russo
Michele "Mike" Lo Russo is a young Italian boxer who has moved to Hamburg to start a professional boxing career. When his German manager refuses to renew his contract, he returns to Trieste, where his older sister Anna lives. Orphaned at an early age, Anna has dedicated her life to her brother's success. His triumph in boxing seems to be the only way to a better life, both for him and for herself. Once again, Anna helps Mike by begging his old coach to train him again. But the hoped-for boxing matches fail to materialize and Mike becomes increasingly impatient. Bargni, a manager whom Mike met in Germany, persuades him to get involved in the illegal fight club business. After Mike hesitates at first, he finally accepts the tempting offer and enters a world without rules.
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Istmo (2020)
Character: Orlando
Orlando is a translator working from home for a film festival, traducing old Latin American movies from Spanish to Italian, and he's also an influencer. He lives locked in his house, with his housemate Amad, whom he's always in conflict with, and who's real identity will be an unexpected surprise. Marina, a food delivery girl who regularly visits Orlando, will be the only one able to help him face the outdoors.
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Napoli milionaria! (2023)
Character: N/A
Naples, 1942. To feed her family and respond to her husband Gennaro's inertia, Amalia is forced to enter the black market. To save his wife from prison, the man fakes his own death.
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Tutto l'amore che c'è (2000)
Character: Nicola
The story takes place in an unspecified town in Apulia. We are in the '70s. The arrival of three beautiful and uninhibited girls from the North, the daughters of an engineer who has moved to run a factory, brings the turmoil amongst the young people of the town. Stories of love, betrayals, state money (stolen) and broken promises intertwine. All through the eyes of Carlo (alter ego of the director Sergio Rubini), the youngest.
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Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle (2017)
Character: Vito
After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He cycles to Italy and decides to grow tulips in the sweltering heat of Puglia.
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La rivincita (2020)
Character: Sabino
In a time of financial precariousness and descent into poverty, two brothers in Apulia lose everything they own.
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Aspettando Il Sole (2008)
Character: Vicio
Italy, 1980s. Three thugs stumble upon a remote, out-of-place hotel: a refuge at the edge of the world. But this isn't just their story. Because at the Bellevue Hotel, other guests exist, breathing or crying behind a door with worn numbers, gestures of love or desperation, whispered voices or screams. In the intertwining of each of these stories, walls dissolve and doors open, revealing the thread that binds the destinies of all the guests.
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Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti (2015)
Character: Max
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
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De L'Autre Côté de la Mer (2015)
Character: The Priest
A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy. One day he decides to cross the sea. Once in Albania, he goes near the location where he had made his last war picture, as if he was retracing his steps. He finds a tree he wants to photograph. He is just about to do so, when he discovers a runaway girl hiding in it with the sole objective of crossing the sea and getting to the other side. The man has no choice. He has to flee with her, follow her and guide her along until a storm separates them.
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Moana (2009)
Character: Antonio Di Ciesco
The life story of Italian iconic pornographic actress Moana Pozzi. The actress Ilona Staller sued the production of the film for the unauthorized use of the character "Cicciolina", of which she owned the rights.
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Il Seme Della Discordia (2008)
Character: Gabriele
Mario and Veronica, a married couple with no children, are both very committed to their careers, which are booming. He's a sales representative for a fertilizer company, while she inherited a boutique from her mother that she wants to renovate and transform. However, things take an unexpected turn when she discovers she's pregnant. What should be good news backfires, as he, almost at the same time, receives test results declaring him sterile.
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Wine to Love (2018)
Character: Luca
Laura Rush, director of a luxury New York wine shop, has launched a campaign to buy Italian wineries to unify under her brand. Things become tangled when beautiful Anna Monti, a former top model, arrives in Italy.
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L'anima gemella (2003)
Character: Tonino
In a small Southern Italian village, young Tonino is engaged to Teresa, but secretly loves her cousin Maddalena—who reciprocates. After discovering it, Teresa seeks revenge and vows to divide them.
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Io che amo solo te (2015)
Character: Vito
Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.
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Il giorno più bello (2016)
Character: N/A
Andrea and Filippo love each other and have been together for many years, which is why Andrea thinks the time has come to get married and registers a request with the municipality with his own name, as if it were that of a woman: Mrs. Andrea Viglione. Being civilly united with Filippo is not enough for him, he wants marriage. He doesn't know, however, that many issues will have to be resolved before that day. First of all, Filippo doesn't find the courage to tell his father and grandfather that he is gay. But Filippo isn't the only one who doesn't have the courage to tell the truth in his family. Also Anna, Andrea's mother, who has rebuilt her life in the United States is unable to tell her husband Anthony and her son Jimmy that Andrea is gay. Especially since Anthony is running for governor of Kansas for the conservatives and his son Jimmy, while still a child, is already a talented evangelical preacher of strict principles.
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Il Marciatore - La vera storia di Abdon Pamich (2026)
Character: N/A
The life of Abdon Pamich: from his exodus from Fiume, a border town overwhelmed by post-war events, to his rise in athletics crowned with Olympic gold. The tough training and sacrifices of a man who, even before learning to walk, had to learn to resist.
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Madklubben (2020)
Character: Alessandro
Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age can be. Marie is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, and her entire identity as part of a happy family crumbles. Berling is the eternal "bachelor" who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, but in the backdrop she is affected by a complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja lives in the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on. The three travel to Italy together to attend a food course in Puglia, where they each have an opportunity to redefine themselves.
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